In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states’ GDP … growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976–2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN … have a statistically and economically significant influence on economic growth. On average, the imposition of UN sanctions …

paper examines their scope with a focus on contingent protection aka tit-for-tat in trade policy. By highlighting various … average more liberal trade regimes. …

This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries … analysis. These measures of the reliability of reported data are used as weights in the reconciliation of each bilateral trade …

Against the background of a changing landscape of trade and investment governance in the 21st century, characterised by … the proliferation of deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs), this paper econometrically tests the importance of global … value chain trade and regulatory differences in explaining the likelihood of a country pair to include an (enforceable …

We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on export diversification, as measured by two extensive margins: the … inton account when computing the respective margins of trade. We find a positive impact of trade facilitation on the … extensive margins of trade. The results are robust to alternative definitions of extensive margins, different sets of controls …

specific (per-unit) duties on patterns of agricultural trade. Specific duties may encourage countries to export higher priced … products, leading to an “Alchian-Allen effect” on unit values. Their restrictive effect on trade values is smaller for …